92, 94, 96, 98, 100 Buchanan Street, Glasgow is a Grade A listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Commercial building. 13 related planning applications.
92, 94, 96, 98, 100 Buchanan Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-copper-moss
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Type
- Commercial building
- OS grid reference
- NS 590 653
- Coordinates
- 55.8603, -4.25384
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
92, 94, 96, 98, 100 Buchanan Street in Glasgow is a commercial building designed by Charles Wilson between 1850 and 1851, showcasing the Italian Renaissance palazzo style. It is three storeys tall with a basement and features seven bays facing Buchanan Street, along with six similarly detailed bays on the return sides. The building is constructed from yellow ashlar sandstone, with a modern stone-faced ground floor that includes a billetted cornice.
The first and second floors have architraved windows adorned with ornately consoled cornices. Above the first-floor windows, there are a variety of swagged masques on the friezes, while the second-floor windows feature swagged wreaths. The jambs are cavetto, detailed with paterae at the mid-point. Continuous band courses align with the window cornices of the first and second floors, and there is a cill course at the second floor.
The main frieze includes guilloched paterae, with dentil moulding above and a modillioned cornice. The ashlar parapet has moulded coping and dies at regular intervals. Additionally, there are three recessed, modern ashlar bays that are two storeys high with a basement, located to the east in South Exchange Place and Royal Bank Place, connecting to Archibald Elliot's earlier neo-Greek building from 1827, which is listed separately.
Local climate
92, 94, 96, 98, 100 Buchanan Street, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 13 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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